War of the Worlds
The game based on Jeff Wayne's musical play and the classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. it is the year 1898 and the Martian have escaped from their dying homeworld to conquer the Earth and take its…
War of the Worlds is an adventure, released 31 December 1984 on ZX Spectrum.
What War of the Worlds is
War of the Worlds was released in 1984. It was published by CRL Group PLC. It is available on ZX Spectrum only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game based on Jeff Wayne's musical play and the classic science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. it is the year 1898 and the Martian have escaped from their dying homeworld to conquer the Earth and take its resources - and the blood of its inhabitants. Take either side in this epic real-time strategy game. You can play as the Martians with their superior technology and powerful but expensive war machines in their campaign to take over Great Britain and the rest of the world. Or play as the weaker but more numerous Humans to turn back the alien onslaught before their fiendish plans can be made reality. Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds is a real-time strategy game. There aren't any set…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The War of the Worlds series
War of the Worlds is the third of 7 entries we hold in the The War of the Worlds series. It arrived a year after The War of the Worlds. The next entry was Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds in 1998.
What it launched against
War of the Worlds launched on 31 December 1984, within three weeks of Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike and Karateka.
Released around the same time: Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike, Karateka.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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